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Malaysia's Johor state, which has approved 51 data centre projects as of November, stops approvals for new low-tier data centers citing high water consumption (The Star)
https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/metro-news/2025/11/26/no-more-…

‘No more low-tier data centre approvals in Johor’
JOHOR will stop approving applications for Tier 1 and Tier 2 data centres due to their massive water consumption, which can reach up to 50 million litres a day.

Trust and Human Autonomy after Cobot Failures: Communication is Key for Industry 5.0
Felix Glawe, Laura Kremer, Luisa Vervier, Philipp Brauner, Martina Ziefle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22298

Trust and Human Autonomy after Cobot Failures: Communication is Key for Industry 5.0
Collaborative robots (cobots) are a core technology of Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 uses cyber-physical systems, IoT and smart automation to improve efficiency and data-driven decision-making. Cobots, as cyber-physical systems, enable the introduction of lightweight automation to smaller companies through their flexibility, low cost and ability to work alongside humans, while keeping humans and their skills in the loop. Industry 5.0, the evolution of Industry 4.0, places the worker at the centre …

Just completed the disassembly of another two Siemens EWSD digital telephone exchanges, which are now in a truck on their way to the Telecom Museum Dresden (Fernmeldemuseum Dresden). Largest time sink was untangling the hundreds of cables (mostly with proprietary Siemens connectors).. #retronetworking #telecom

Shares of Japanese optical fiber maker Fujikura are up ~171% YTD, outpacing the Nikkei's 22% and lifting its market cap to $33B amid the AI data center boom (Junko Fujita/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Scotland "..there are 17 live planning applications for hyperscale data centres across the country, with more in the pipeline; enough to increase energy demand by 4,450-4,950 megawatts."
Scottish government face calls for data centre moratorium | Morning Star
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South Korea raises cyber threat level after huge data centre fire sparks hacking fears
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/30/south-korea-raises-cyber-threat-level-after-huge-data-centre-fire-sparks-ha…

India officially notifies its first data protection law to establish a framework for data processing, protection, and governance, including verifiable consent (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.c…

India notifies its first data protection law to strengthen privacy, security
India has officially notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, establishing a framework for data processing, protection, and governance. These rules, enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, introduce verifiable consent, breach notification mandates, and data retention limits. They aim to enhance individual control and foster safer digital ecosystems.

"Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 computers."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rpy7en

'I heat my Essex home with a data centre in the shed'
"It's fantastic because it's eco-friendly...We're not burning any gases," says Terrence Bridges.

Future of Privacy Forum Appoints Matthew Reisman as Vice President of U.S. Policy
https://fpf.org/press-releases/future-of-privacy-forum-appoints-matthew-reisman-as-vice-president-of-u-s-policy/

Depaywalled link: http://archive.today/2025.11.06-203144/https://www.afr.com/technology/google-plans-a-powerful-ai-data-centre-on-tiny-australian-outpost-20251107-p5n8fk

Google plans to invest $10B to build a new 1GW data center cluster near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, India, with operations expected to begin by July 2028 (Shashank Pathak/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/snippets/google-to-invest-10-bn-in…

Google to invest $10 Bn in Visakhapatnam data centre cluster
Google is planning a massive push in India by investing $10 billion to build a new data centre cluster in and around Visakhapatnam. The project will include three campuses. Snippets

The JWST-NIRCam View of Sagittarius C. III. The Extinction Curve
Luc\'ia Bravo Ferres, Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Rainer Sch\"odel, Rub\'en Fedriani, Adam Ginsburg, Samuel Crowe, Jonathan C. Tan, Morten Andersen, Joseph Armstrong, Yu Cheng, Zhi-Yun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10749

The JWST-NIRCam View of Sagittarius C. III. The Extinction Curve
Determining the infrared extinction curve towards the Galactic centre is crucial for accurately correcting observed data and deriving the underlying stellar populations. However, extinction curves reported in the literature often show discrepancies. We aim to derive the infrared extinction curve towards the Galactic centre based on JWST-NIRCam data for the first time, using observations of the Sagittarius C region in the 1-5 $μ$m range. We determined extinction ratios using two different metho…

"UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Water #Technology

Thinking about the NIRS data centre fire in Korea, and remembering that (back when I dealt with physical servers) you tried to avoid racking important disk servers directly over the UPS, even though they were heavy, because of the knowledge that UPSes will occasionally explode.

Search for a resonance decaying into a scalar particle and a Higgs boson in the final state with two bottom quarks and two photons with 199 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected at $\sqrt{s}$=13 TeV and $\sqrt{s}$=13.6 TeV with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02857

Search for a resonance decaying into a scalar particle and a Higgs boson in the final state with two bottom quarks and two photons with 199 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected at $\sqrt{s}$=13 TeV and $\sqrt{s}$=13.6 TeV with the ATLAS detector
A search for the resonant production of a heavy scalar $X$ decaying into a Higgs boson and a lighter scalar $S$, through the process $X \rightarrow S (\rightarrow b \bar{b})H ( \rightarrow γγ)$, where the two photons are consistent with the Higgs boson decay, is performed. The search is conducted using integrated luminosities of 140 fb$^{-1}$ and 58.6 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at centre-of-mass energies of 13 TeV and 13.6 TeV respectively, recorded with the ATLAS detector at t…

Google opens an AI infrastructure hardware engineering hub in Taipei, its biggest outside of the US, to develop and test tech to be deployed in its data centers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/google-opens-new-ai-engin…

A study of 80 known pulsars at 185 MHz using MWA incoherent drift-scan observations
Ting Yu, Hongyu Gong, Zhifu Gao, Zhongli Zhang, Zhigang Wen, Yujie Wang, Tao An
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09046

A study of 80 known pulsars at 185 MHz using MWA incoherent drift-scan observations
A systematic study of 80 known pulsars observed at 185 MHz has been conducted using archival incoherent-sum data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The dataset comprises 48 drift-scan observations from the MWA Voltage Capture System, covering approximately 30,000 square degrees of sky with sensitivities reaching about 8 mJy in the deepest regions. An optimized PRESTO-based search pipeline was deployed on the China SKA Regional Centre infrastructure. This enabled the detection of 80 known…

GALACTICNUCLEUS: A high angular resolution JHKs imaging survey of the Galactic centre
\'A. Mart\'inez Arranz, R. Sch\"odel, H. Bouy, F. Nogueras-Lara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11966

GALACTICNUCLEUS: A high angular resolution JHKs imaging survey of the Galactic centre
The center of the Milky Way is a unique environment of great astrophysical interest, but its extreme crowding and extinction make it difficult to study. The GALACTICNUCLEUS survey, a high-angular-resolution near-infrared imaging program, was designed to overcome these challenges. We present the methodology and first results of its second data release, which includes major improvements in reduction, calibration, and analysis, providing deeper photometry, improved astrometry, and high-precision p…

AI and the railway mania
Michael Roberts.
"A widely cited study from MIT found that so far, 95 per cent of generative AI projects produce no return in productivity growth or profits. To justify the required investment, annual data-centre revenues would need to rise from $20bn today to about $2trn.  Existing revenues will fall short by $800bn.."

AI and the railway mania
The AI bubble continues. The Magnificent Seven of tech media continue to drive the US stock market, along with the AI companies. The ten largest US companies by stock market value, holdin…

Sources and documents: Google plans to build an AI data center on Australia's remote Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with its DOD earlier in 2025 (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ispreview/115269608554719100
This article about Openreach giving two-days notice to remove lithium batteries from co-lo cabinets, was posted about 2 hours before a Li-ion UPS caught fire and took out a South Korean government data centre. Spooky …

Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September (Tess Bennett/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/technology/oliver-curt

Firmus Technologies: Oliver Curtis’ AI infrastructure start-up triples valuation to $6 billion
The AI start-up has tripled its valuation in two months, raising a further $500 million from investors to bankroll its massive data centre developments. 

Combination of searches for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$= 13 TeV
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07527 https://…

Combination of searches for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$= 13 TeV
This paper presents a combination of searches for the nonresonant production of Higgs boson pairs (HH) in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data set was collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC from 2016 to 2018 and corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. The observed (expected) upper limit on the inclusive HH production cross section relative to the standard model (SM) prediction is found to be 3.5 (2.5). Assuming all other Higgs boson …

NextEra Energy expands its partnership with Google Cloud to develop data centre campuses across the US and secures 2.5 GW of clean energy contracts from Meta (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/next…

Is Liller 1 a building block of the Galactic bulge? - Evidence with APOGEE
Anna Liptrott, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Andrew C. Mason, Sebastian Kamann, Borja Anguiano, Roger E. Cohen, Jos\'e G. Fern\'andez-Trincado, Danny Horta, Steven R. Majewski, Dante Minniti, David M. Nataf, Michael J. W. O'Connor, Dominic Wearne
https://arxiv.or…

Is Liller 1 a building block of the Galactic bulge? - Evidence with APOGEE
Liller 1 is a stellar system orbiting within the inner 0.8kpc of the Galactic centre, characterised by a wide spread in age and metallicity, indicating a high mass. Liller 1 has been proposed to be a major contributor to the stellar mass of the Galactic bulge, yet its origin is subject to debate. We employ Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) to test scenarios proposed to explain the nature of Liller 1. Using a rando…

London-based "neocloud" startup Nscale closed a $433M pre-Series C SAFE round from Nvidia, Nokia, Dell, and others, after raising a $1.1B Series B on Sept. 25 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/01/nscale-closes-433m-round-days-after…

Nscale closes $433M round, days after bagging $1.1BN funding
Nscale, the UK-based AI data centre startup, has closed a $433 million funding round, just days after bagging a $1.1 billion funding round, as the vast investment in AI infrastructure shows no signs of abating.Nscale, which pitches itself as a "hyperscaler engineered for AI", was named as a key local AI infrastructure partner for OpenAI, Microsoft and Nvidia, which announced significant investments into the UK AI ecosystem last week, coinciding with the visit of President Trump.The latest $433m…